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Kilkenny County Council Arts Office E-bulletin 17th April 2015
Dear All,
Welcome to the fortnightly e-bulletin from Kilkenny County Council's Arts Office. Each bulletin is packed with the latest information on Kilkenny Arts Office activities, county events as well as news and opportunities for arts practitioners from around the country.
This service will be provided fortnightly. To include an item in the next e-bulletin please send a brief outline of your advert with relevant contact details, including any websites or pages with links to [email protected] before 29th April. The next e-bulletin will be on the 1st May.
While every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of our information, we strongly advise readers to verify all details to their own satisfaction.
Regards,
Niamh BrophyArts Office,T: 056 7794138E: [email protected] W: www.kilkennycoco.ie/eng/Services/Arts/
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Arts Office
R3VERSE - FREE Poetry Workshops for Teenagers
Kilkenny Poetry Broadsheet 2015: Call for Submissions
Kilkenny Writer in Residence Rita Kelly offers Intermediate / Advanced Writing Workshops
Mentoring for Kilkenny Writers with Writer in Residence - Rita Kelly
Kilkenny Clinic Mentoring Programme for artists 2015
Read the Next Rhyme Rag poem!
Save the Date Rhyme Rag Launch Tuesday 28th April!
Still, We Work, Representation of Women and Work Touring Exhibition coming to Kilkenny soon
Kilkenny Events
Alice in Wonderland 2015: Kilkenny Youth Theatre
Abhainn Ri: Call for Ideas
Lucinda Sly
Artist By Night Unveils New Work
Shared Exhibition Space Opportunity at Kilkenny Arts Week
Spaces Available at Artist-run Studio in Kilkenny
Hot Water Bottle
National Craft Gallery Workshops
Eigse: Call for Submissions
Storytelling Ulysses
Grennan Mill Craft School - Summer Courses 2015
Butler Gallery Education Panel: Call for Artists
Kilkenny County Council Community and Cultural Facilities Capital Funding
Poets on Board at City Library, Johns Quay
List Your Exhibitions, Events and Opportunities with VAI
KCAT Icon Painting
R - Tunes in the Church, Black Abbey
Kilkenny Roots Festival May 2015
Coming Soon to the Watergate Theatre
Kilkenny Steiner School : Relief teachers required
KOZO Workshop Programme 2015
Courses / Training / Jobs / Internships
City Life: new NCAD + UCD summer school thisJuly
Certificate in Child Protection and Welfare
Big Smoke Writing Factory - April 2015
MA in Socially Engaged Art, NCAD Call for Applications
Over The Edge Offers Poets Worldwide Online Poetry Workshop with Kevin Higgins
Curatorial Internship Opportunities at The Hunt Museum
Call for Submissions / Residencies
Bursary for documentation of an arts and health project
Top Mag, For Teens by Teens
Artists' Books Stall at Get Together 2015
Midlands Feis Ceoil to Hit all the Right Notes with Irelands Finest Young Musicians
Public Art Work, Cashel Tipperary Municipal District Office
Call to Artists for Participatory Arts & Mental Health Panel Waterford
Open Call: AN POST Public Art Commissions
Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris: Artists in Residence 2015/16
Participatory Artists sought for Tallafest
Donaghmore Village Public Art Commission: Call for Artists Proposals
Arts in Education Portal: Call for news and opportunities
Call for Nominations: Celebrating partnership between Business and the Arts
RDS National Craft Awards 2015: Call for Entries
Light Work Artist-in-Residence Program
The Moth Short Story Prize
Awards / Bursaries / Schemes
2014/2015 Dates and Deadlines for Culture Ireland Grant Rounds
Grant for Performing Arts 2015
Arts and Disability Connect
The Arts Council Programme for Ireland 2016: Open Call to the Irish Imagination
Arts Councils Artist in the Community Scheme Deadlines 2015
Of Interest
Ireland's National Day for Visual Artists - Friday, 15th May 2015 in IMMA
Sean Lynch to Represent Ireland at the Venice Art Biennale 2015
Scripts Irelands Playwriting Festival
Arts Office
R3VERSE - FREE Poetry Workshops for Teenagers
Do you want to learn to write poetry? Do you want to improve your poetry writing skills?
Do you want to have FUN? And all of this for FREE!
Tutor: Rita Kelly
Time: Mondays 5pm 7pm
Dates: Mondays 13th, 20th and 27th April and 11th, 18th and 25th May (6 weeks, breaking for Bank Holiday)
Location: No. 5 Dean Street, Kilkenny City
Cost: Free!
Over six one-hour workshop sessions, the participants will be facilitated through the poetry writing process from original idea/concept in drafting, writing, editing, reading and completing poems. You will discover the process through investigating sample poems interwoven with working through your own ideas. You will create and then edit you own poem text, and you will be advised on submission for publication, on reading your poem to an audience, plus many practical tips aside. There will be writing to do in every session, and also between sessions. Bring a dedicated copybook/notebook plus an A4 lined writing pad and a pen, biro or pencil!
Get yourself ready to submit your work to our dedicated online poetry journal www.rhymerag.net
These free workshops can be booked by contacting Rita Kelly directly at [email protected] or 087 6728974.
Limited spaces available.
Rita Kelly Biography
Rita Kelly, considered by some as a gifted poet in both English and Irish, has won many awards for her writing. She has published six collections of poetry. Born in Galway, 1953 she now lives in Tramore with breathtaking views of the sea and the beach. She has had a long and very enjoyable connection to the Kilkenny Writers for nearly 30 years now; working with wonderful poets and writers in the Clogh, Bennettsbridge, Thomastown, Graiguenamanagh areas and most recently with great and creative students in Scoil Aireagail, Ballyhales Tranisition Years.
Call for Submissions: Kilkenny Poetry Broadsheet Issue 15
Kilkenny County Council Arts Office is delighted to announce a call for submissions for the publication of the fifteenth issue of the very popular Kilkenny Poetry Broadsheet. The aim of the publication is to give local writers a platform for their work. Each poem selected is included in the broadsheet which is available free throughout the County. One hundred and ninety two poems were submitted for consideration by seventy seven poets with thirteen poems by thirteen poets selected by Editor Enda Coyle-Greene in 2014 with the publication launched as part of the Kilkenny Arts Festival by American poet Billy Collins.
This fifteenth issue of Kilkenny Poetry Broadsheet will be edited by Tony Curtis.
Tony Curtis was born in Dublin in 1955. An award-winning poet, Curtis has published nine warmly received collections. His most recent collections are: 'Pony' (with paintings and drawing by David Lilburn, Occasional Press 2013); 'Currach' (with photographs by Liam Blake, 2013); 'Folk' (Arc Publications 2011). His children's book 'An Elephant Called Rex and a Dog Called Dumbo' (with illustrations by Pat Mooney) was published in 2011. A new collection 'Approximately in the Key of C' is forthcoming from Arc Publications. Curtis has been awarded the Varuna House exchange Fellowship to Australia, The Irish National Poetry Prize, and has read his poetry all over the world to great acclaim. He is a member of Aosdana.
We are now accepting submissions from poets born or based in Kilkenny City and County.
Closing date for receipt of submissions is no later than 4pm on Tuesday 5th May.
Application forms and submission rules are available from the Arts Office, Johns Green house, Johns Green, Kilkenny. T: 056 7794138 E: [email protected]
Or can be downloaded from: http://www.kilkennycoco.ie/eng/Services/Arts/News/Call-for-Submissions-Kilkenny-Poetry-Broadsheet-Issue-15.html
No electronic submissions accepted.
Kilkenny Writer in Residence Rita Kelly offers Intermediate / Advanced Writing Workshops
Kilkenny County Councils Arts Office is pleased to announce the appointment of Rita Kelly as Kilkennys Writer in Residence (WIR). Over the next few months Rita will be working with Kilkenny writers, facilitating creative writing workshops and offering mentoring advice. Writing workshops aimed at bringing writers, of intermediate and advanced experience, to the next level will take place in the Arts Office, 5 Dean Street, Kilkenny, through the initial provision of three weekends of writing.
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Creative Writing Weekend for Adults
Tutor: Rita KellyVenue: Arts Office, 5 Dean Street, KilkennyTime: 10am 1pm and 2pm 4:30pm
Cost: 45 / 40 concession
Dates:
Workshop 1: Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th April
Workshop 2: Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th April
Workshop 3: Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th May
(NB Participants need to book for one weekend only. Attendance at a second workshop is allowed subject to initial booking numbers, so please indicate when booking if you wish your name to be placed on a waiting list for a secon